Am I live-blogging the debate tonight? It’s possible. I’ll either be doing that, or I’ll be on a boat with some friends heading to dinner on the lake. Either way, I’ll be having fun! Check back later for an update either way, and perhaps this debate will be the ‘interesting’ ...
Read MoreMichael Schiavo returns!
Mike Riggs points out that Michael Schiavo, the husband who made the decision to remove his wife’s feeding tube and thus end her life a few years ago, is now speaking out against Florida’s proposed amendment to ban gay marriage. As I recall, many conservatives at the time were demonizing ...
Read MoreYou might be a culturally paranoid halfwit if…
Not a week goes by when I don’t receive these awful little conservative diatribes by email. The below is a great example; an adaptation of Jeff Foxworthy’s “You Might Be A Redneck” that aims to defend an arbitrary list of traditional conservative values. It represents part of the wider ‘culture ...
Read MoreFinancial crisis: blame socialism!
That’s right: the current financial crisis derived from left-wing ideas. If you doubt this, check out this quote from a New York Times article that appeared on September 30th, 1999: Fannie Mae, the nation’s biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton administration to expand ...
Read MoreUtilitarianism on your iPhone
My two loves, Apple and political philosophy, have finally come together with this decidedly lame iPhone app which provides wonderful but fallacious philosophical statements like the one on the right. How philosophical are most iPhone users? How utilitarian is it to own an Apple product? If an iPhone rings in ...
Read MoreMy Monday project
So, here’s where I show you I’m good at something other than pissing people off for a living. My project today – my day off – was to take a pair of Melissa’s jeans and distress them myself using a power sander, bleach, block of wood, stone and steel rod. ...
Read MoreSunday: life ain’t bad
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Read MoreDebate II: another live-blogged summary
This is my live-blogged summary of the second McCain-Obama debate from Nashville, TN. 6:01pm Wow, the place is basically a TV studio with only maybe 50 or 100 people in the audience, who are surrounding the candidates on all sides. Talk about being exposed! Well, this will facilitate the audience ...
Read MoreTeach the Controversy!
Those who believe God created the universe as it is today have taken more and more desperate measures to keep the teaching of creationism on school curricula. First, they wanted the teaching to consist of the creation stories told in Genesis. Then, when that failed because it was considered religion ...
Read MoreFront cover of The Atlantic
Could this photograph win or lose votes for John McCain? (© 2008 The Atlantic.)
Read MoreThis blog now iPhone-friendly
Those of you who check in from time to time using your iPhone should now be able to see an iPhone-friendly version of this blog, which lists the articles in chronological order and allows you to navigate through the material in an iPhone-familiar way. (I recommend turning your iPhone on ...
Read MoreMorford: virgins are overrated!
I’m republishing this old article of mine from May, 2006, as it is very relevant to the recent conversation on sexual morality. —————————– In an article entitled “Christian Virgins Are Overrated,” San Francisco Chronicle columnist Mark Morford makes a series of good observations about the conservative approach to sexuality, particularly ...
Read More‘NUCULAR’: Palin has company!
I spotted a friend of a friend on Facebook ridiculing Sarah Palin, basing her critique on the fact that the word ‘nuclear’ Palin pronounces ‘nucular.’ The critique is all over the web. Seitzman: “She said ‘nucular.’ Twice. … If you are a McCain/Palin/Bush voter, you and I do not have ...
Read MoreEconomic woes and Four-Cheese Doritos
Americans are stressed out with economic worries right now, so they’re turning to comfort foods according to this article. And I think it’s true, since I saw the article only half an hour after returning home on a Sunday morning with two family-sized bags of the recently re-released 4-cheese Doritos! ...
Read More“Ass or arse, life’s a farce.”
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Read MoreHopewell responds on sexual morality
Stephen Hopewell has responded to my latest post on sexual morality, the background of which forms a thread on this topic that runs like this: 1) My post, Philips, Pompeii and human sexuality, 2) His article, The Sex Problem, Past and Present, 3) My response, Stephen Hopewell on Pompeii, 4) ...
Read MoreVP Debate: my live blogged summary
This is my live-blogging of the VP debate as it transpired between candidates Joe Biden and Sarah Palin. (Also see my live-blogged summary of the McCain/Obama debate here.) 5:58pm First, I’ll be playing Palin Bingo during the event tonight to spice things up a little. So, watching the debate, playing ...
Read MoreThursday
First, it’s the Palin-Biden debate tonight. I can’t wait to see what happens. Can Sarah redeem herself after her awful interviews with Katie Couric, the second part of which is even worse than the first? Can Joe refrain from ripping apart a hockey mom on live television or taking his ...
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